SJ and I did get a chance to follow up with him afterward and suggest that
they might considering teaching English literacy directly to non-native
speakers (as we did in our Ethiopia pilot, rather than only teaching
students in their native language; of course DuoLingo doesn't support a
large numbe
DuoLingo is one of the few interesting projects about learning in the last
years :/
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 7:58 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> I'm in a presentation by Luis von Ahn, founder of DuoLingo, and I asked
> him if he had any plans to expand to literacy.
>
> He replied that they will be
I'm in a presentation by Luis von Ahn, founder of DuoLingo, and I asked him
if he had any plans to expand to literacy.
He replied that they will be releasing a "reading and typing" (not writing,
which he thought had poor ROI) app next year.
This makes me extremely excited.
--scott
PS. I should
